Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Alan Ball

Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.

Darren Shan

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

David Sedaris

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

Catherine Deneuve

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Camille Paglia

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

Deborah Harkness

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Bill Nighy

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

Charlaine Harris

It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club

Charlaine Harris

As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Kim Gandy

She tapped into a longing for something more in American women. It resonated with our mothers and with us.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

Emily Dickinson

Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground

Greta Garbo

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

Jim Elliot

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.